mimeticity
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mimeticity (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality or state of being mimetic, or the degree to which one is mimetic.
- 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in Journal of Philosophy, volume 61, number 19, page 572:
- Now the Imitation Theory of Art (IT) is, if one but thinks it through, an exceedingly powerful theory. . . . Moreover, it is a simple matter to shore it up against many purported counterinstances by such auxiliary hypotheses as that the artist who deviates from mimeticity is perverse, inept, or mad.